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Death Sits Down to Dinner: A Mystery (Lady Montfort Mystery Series)

by Tessa Arlen

Published: 2016-03-29

Hardcover: 336 pages

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Filled with deceptions both real and imagined, Death Sits Down to Dinner is a delightful Edwardian mystery set in London.Lady Montfort is thrilled to receive an invitation to a dinner party hosted by her close friend Hermione Kingsley, the patroness of England's largest charity. Hermione h...

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A Good Neighbourhood

by Therese Anne Fowler

Published: 2020-02-04

Hardcover: 352 pages

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A Good Neighbourhood explores how class, race and star-crossed love can change two families's lives forever. Perfect for fans of Celeste Ng.'A feast of a read: compelling, heartbreaking, and inevitable. I finished A Good Neighborhood in a single sitting. Yes, it's that good.' Jodi PicoultI...

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Amnesty: A Novel

by Aravind Adiga

Published: 2020-02-18

Hardcover: 272 pages

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A riveting, suspenseful, and exuberant novel from the bestselling, Man Booker Prize–winning author of The White Tiger and Selection Day about a young illegal immigrant who must decide whether to report crucial information about a murder—and thereby risk deportation.Danny—formerly Dha...

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The Unexpected Spy: From the CIA to the FBI, My Secret Life Taking Down Some of the World's Most Notorious Terrorists

by Tracy Walder, Jessica Anya Blau

Published: 2020-02-25

Hardcover: 272 pages

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A highly entertaining account of a young woman who went straight from her college sorority to the CIA, where she hunted terrorists and WMDs"A thrilling tale...Walder’s fast-paced and intense narrative opens a window into life in two of America’s major intelligence agencies" ?Publishers...

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The Lost Queen: A Novel (1)

by Signe Pike

Published: 2019-06-04

Paperback: 560 pages

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“Outlander meets Camelot” (Kirsty Logan, author of The Gracekeepers) in the first book of an exciting historical trilogy that reveals the untold story of Languoreth—a powerful and, until now, tragically forgotten queen of sixth-century Scotland—twin sister of the man who inspired t...

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Deacon King Kong: A Novel

by James McBride

Published: 2020-03-03

Hardcover: 384 pages

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From James McBride, author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, one of the most anticipated novels of the year: a wise and witty tale about what happens to the witnesses of a shooting.In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into...

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Death Is Hard Work: A Novel

by Khaled Khalifa

Published: 2019-02-12

Hardcover: 192 pages

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FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATUREA dogged, absurd quest through the nightmare of the Syrian civil warKhaled Khalifa’s Death Is Hard Work is the new novel from the greatest chronicler of Syria’s ongoing and catastrophic civil war: a tale of three ordinary pe...

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The Keeper: A Novel

by Jessica Moor

Published: 2020-03-10

Paperback: 336 pages

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An addictive literary thriller about a crime as shocking as it is commonplace.When Katie Straw's body is pulled from the waters of the local suicide spot, the police are ready to write it off as a standard-issue female suicide. But the residents of the domestic violence shelter where Katie...

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Becoming a Dangerous Woman: Embracing Risk to Change the World

by Pat Mitchell

Published: 2019-10-08

Hardcover: 304 pages

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An intimate and inspiring memoir and call to action from Pat Mitchell -- groundbreaking media icon, global advocate for women's rights, and co-founder and curator of TEDWomen Pat Mitchell is a serial ceiling smasher. The first woman to own and host a nationally syndicated daily talk show, ...

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The Liar

by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen

Published: 2019-09-24

Hardcover: 288 pages

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An Elle Magazine 2019 Best Book of the Year"A brilliant fable about the lure of lying and the lure of fame. The writing is wonderful." --Joan Silber, National Book Critics Circle and PEN/Faulkner award-winning author of ImprovementFrom the award-winning author of Waking Lions, a provocativ...